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ROOF SUDDENLY COLLAPSES; Brings Balcony Down With It on Top of Those In Orchestra Seats. MORE THAN 100 ARE INJURED Congressman Smithwick and Other Distinguished Persons Among Those Hurt. TRAGEDY OF RECORD STORM Snow Falling for 28 Hours Had Tied Up Business in the Capital and Halted Traffic. Many Reported Missing. Soldiers and Marines Give Help. Probably 500 in the Theatre. Tons of Wreckage Fell on People. Early Confusion at the Scene. Army Captain Pinned Under Wreckage. Figured 300 Were Buried. SNOW OVERWHELMS CAPITAL. Record Fall for 24 Hours Ties Up. Traffic and Business. Greatest Fall Since 1899. Conference and Congress Affected. How the Storm Came. Previous Records Here. Many Southern Trains Stalled.

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January 29, 1922,

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.--The roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre, one of the largest of the modern moving picture theatres of Washington, collapsed just before 9 o'clock tonight under a tremendous burden of snow, brought by the record-breaking storm that had raged here for 28 hours.

January 29, 1922

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